李广

李廣

Lǐ Guǎng

proper noun #94,900

Meanings

1 Li Guang, Western Han dynasty general nicknamed the Flying General (飞将军)

About Li Guang

died 119 BC · 军事家 military leader

Western Han general who fought more than seventy battles against the Xiongnu, who called him the 飞将军 (Flying General). He was never made a noble, a fate summed up in the phrase 李广难封.

Also called 飞将军

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Examples

HSK 6

唐代诗人王昌龄写过怀念李广的诗。

Táng dài shīrén Wáng Chānglíng xiě guo huáiniàn Lǐ Guǎng de shī.

The Tang poet Wang Changling wrote poems commemorating Li Guang.

HSK 7-9

李广是汉代抗击匈奴的著名将领。

Lǐ Guǎng shì Hàndài kàngjī Xiōngnú de zhùmíng jiànglǐng.

Li Guang was a famous Han-dynasty general who fought the Xiongnu.

Tips

culture

司马迁 ends his life of Li Guang with the saying 桃李不言，下自成蹊, 'peach and plum trees say nothing, yet a path forms beneath them', for a man of few words whom people trusted. He is also the archer who shot a rock he took for a tiger and sank the arrow into it.

In Pop Culture

但使龙城飞将在，不教胡马度阴山 Dàn shǐ lóngchéng fēi jiàng zài, bù jiāo hú mǎ dù Yīn shān

If only the Flying General of Dragon City were here, no Hu horse would dare cross Mount Yin

Famous couplet from Wang Changling's 《出塞》, alluding to Li Guang.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ

广 guǎng

李广